My Child and I Married a Billionaire novel Chapter 237

Chapter 237: Chapter 237: I’ll Support You

I drifted off and took another nap. By the time Amina woke me, the room had been completely tidied up, and even lunch was ready.

Although the room was small and simple, it was spotless. A bit of sunlight spilled in from the window, making it feel very cozy. Zeke Walton felt incredibly refreshed.

Amina had stir-fried some vegetables with tofu and steamed some rice. The moment Zeke Walton sat down, she pushed a notebook toward him. It was neatly filled with an accounting of everything they had bought that morning and the corresponding prices.

"This is how much we spent today. I wrote it all down. See if anything looks off."

Zeke Walton had already forgotten the prices, so it was impressive that she had recorded each item so clearly.

But that wasn’t what was most important. He discovered that Amina’s handwriting was excellent—incredibly neat and elegant. Looking at the script, he could almost picture the serious expression she must have worn while writing.

Remembering how she couldn’t tear herself away from the books earlier that day, Zeke Walton couldn’t help but ask.

"Amina, what’s your highest level of education?"

Amina seemed to avoid this type of question. "Can we not talk about this?"

Zeke Walton didn’t understand. "Why not? Is it something you can’t talk about?"

Seeing how curious Zeke Walton was, and considering he was her only friend in the city now, Amina gave it some thought.

"Alright, if you really want to know, I’ll tell you. I graduated from high school the year before last."

A high school diploma wasn’t that impressive, but coming from Amina, it seemed like a major accomplishment. Zeke Walton was surprised.

"You finished high school, so why didn’t you try for college? You’re so diligent, your grades must have been good, right? Even graduating from a vocational college would give you better job options than this."

Amina blushed again. "Didn’t I tell you my family doesn’t have much money? Elementary and middle school were free, and my grandma protected me, so it was fine. The others would say they didn’t want me to keep studying, but they never really stopped me. But high school got complicated. It was far from home, I needed money for living expenses every month, and I couldn’t help out with work. Besides my grandma, everyone else tried to stop me from going back every time I came home."

Zeke Walton said, "...So you..."

At the mention of her grandmother, Amina’s eyes turned red. "Later, Grandma got sick and was confined to her bed. When I heard college costs tens of thousands of yuan a year, I lost the desire to go myself."

"I took care of Grandma at home for a year. Then last year, when I was nineteen, my grandfather and older brother tried to marry me off. They wanted to use the bride price to find a wife for my eldest brother... But the family they picked was just terrible. The man had a mental illness. I have a classmate from middle school who lives in his village, and she told me that when he has an episode, he runs around the village naked."

"I didn’t want to abandon my grandma and run away, it felt heartless... but if I didn’t, my children would have been born with mental illnesses too..."

Zeke Walton was so stunned by her story it made his skin crawl.

’Her own grandfather and brother were actually going to marry her off to a madman for the bride price!’

"They didn’t know, did they?"

Amina wiped her tears. "How could they not know? It’s exactly because he’s simple-minded that his family offered a higher bride price, so..."

"I actually left right after the New Year. My cousin’s wife got me a job as a waitress. I didn’t have a bank account, so my pay went to her card. It took me a long time to find out that my salary was actually 3,200 a month, but she was pocketing a thousand..."

Once again, Zeke Walton was speechless. "..."

"So, I was really grateful to my cousin’s husband when he convinced her to let me become a delivery driver. But I never expected..."

"So, that’s the gist of it. Please don’t ask about it again. There’s nothing left to do here this afternoon. I’m going out to work. I have to earn money quickly to send back for my grandma’s treatment."

After eating, Amina left. Zeke Walton, with nothing to do, lay back down on the bed.

He had no phone to play with, no TV to watch, and he couldn’t fall back asleep. Bored out of his skull, he took out their money and began to count it.

He hadn’t realized how bad it was, but counting it gave him a shock.

Even though Amina had desperately tried to save money, choosing the absolute cheapest items, after paying the rent, security deposit, and buying all their things, he was shocked to find only 1,100 yuan left.

1,100 yuan. For two people. A wave of panic washed over him.

He thought it over. ’This can’t go on.’ He pocketed the money and took a taxi to his studio.

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